The next season departed further from earnest presentations in its production of The Gondoliers, which included a deeply corrugated stage floor, "startling", "surreal, primary coloured, starkly angled sets", gimmicky distracting business and generally staging that was considered "way over the top".
The police officer had just finished an earnest presentation on counter-extremism before an audience of 200 restless teenagers at an East London secondary school when a young man of Pakistani origin in a black hoodie took the stage.
The videos offer a mix of entertaining natural history dramas like "Ants Africa" and earnest, instructional presentations, like "Soybean Aphid Speed Scouting – How To?," which won in the Outreach category.
She says her intension was that it be "an earnest and loving presentation of something I fell in love with".
In the meantime, nothing in the city's halting march back is too small, or too large, to be examined in earnest prose and PowerPoint presentations raining down from Washington and points north, sometimes accompanied by overnight politicians or think-tankers vowing to bravely fight on.
More earnest, straightforward (and often star-studded) presentations of Chekhov that showed up in the succeeding years often felt almost as alienating, though for the different reason that the performers seemed to have arrived from clashing schools of acting.
Settlement negotiations were said to have begun in earnest in mid-May, with a direct presentation to the plaintiffs' lawyers by G. Allen Andreas, the chief executive of Archer Daniels, who is a cousin of Michael Andreas.
After the upfront week presentations conclude, the negotiations between the networks and agencies begin in earnest.
During his two-hour presentation with financial analysts, Mr. Elop, who usually comes across as earnest and serious, had the audience laughing when explaining the new organizational chart of his leadership team, with his name at top.
The souped-up PowerPoint presentation that was "An Inconvenient Truth" effectively separated facts from muddle, and Gore's earnest, insistent monotone, for so long a political handicap, found its most successful application.
What started as an earnest collaborative attempt at deciphering the structurally and stratigraphically complicated rock succession in Wales ended in 1835 with a presentation outlining two distinct subdivisions of the pre-Carboniferous succession.
